Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)

Description

Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opened up appreciation of Martin Heidegger beyond the confines of philosophy to the reaches of poetry. In Heidegger's thinking, poetry is not a mere amusement or form of culture but a force that opens up the realm of truth and brings man to the measure of his being and his world.

About the Author

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) spent most of his career teaching at the University of Freiburg. His most prominent works include "Being and Time," "Discourse on Thinking," "Identity and Difference," "What Is Called Thinking?," and "Poetry, Language, Thought," Joan Stambaugh is a professor emerita of philosophy at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She is the author, most recently, of "The Finitude of Being," "The Other Neitzsche," and "The Formless Self,"